Ébola
[ˈeβ̞ola]
The verdict
“Ébola” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #15,519. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,519
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 31
- “É” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Ebolavirus) Virus causante de una enfermedad infecciosa, caracterizada por fiebre hemorrágica, que es altamente contagiosa y muy severa, afectatando a todo tipo de primates, incluidos los seres hu...
Corpus desk
Index ES-ebola · Ébola · Spanish
Ébola · rank #15,519 · 7 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,519
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 31
- PHOTO-FINISH Ángela
Nearest frequency peer: Ángela (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “Ébola”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
84,485 corpus weight
- zoo
zoo
84,484 corpus weight
- Ángela
Ángela
84,483 corpus weight
- Ébola
Ébola
84,482 corpus weight
- épico
épico
84,481 corpus weight
- abstención
abstención
84,479 corpus weight
What this shows “Ébola” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ébola |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈeβ̞ola] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Ébola”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Ébola (IPA [ˈeβ̞ola]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #15,519 among 31 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Ebolavirus) Virus causante de una enfermedad infecciosa, caracterizada por fiebre hemorrágica, que es altamente contagiosa y muy severa, afectatando a todo tipo de primates, incluidos los seres hu...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ébola, with forms such as "béola", "ébbola", and "ébloa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "ela", "ella", "época", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Ébola, spelled É-B-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1(Ebolavirus) Virus causante de una enfermedad infecciosa, caracterizada por fiebre hemorrágica, que es altamente contagiosa y muy severa, afectatando a todo tipo de primates, incluidos los seres humanos y a otros mamíferos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- béola
- ébbola
- ébloa
- éboal
- ébolla
- éobla
- évola
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ébola - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).